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Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2006 00:14:57 -0700
From: Eugene Surovegin <ebs@ebshome.net>
To: Andre Draszik <kernel@andred.net>
Subject: Re: Slab errors on 4xx (STB04)
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On Mon, Apr 10, 2006 at 12:33:56AM +0200, Andre Draszik wrote:
> 
> Since it _seems_ to work nevertheless - is CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB known to be
> broken on this platform?

Yes, it's very likely that CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB is the culprit here. This 
config option changes allocation alignment (it becomes not L1 cache 
line aligned). For 4xx which has non-coherent L1 cache this with 
almost 100% probability will break DMA, resulting in memory 
corruption.

You can try changing __dma_sync() to do flush_dcache_range() even for 
DMA_FROM_DEVICE case. However, do this only to check this theory, not 
as a permanent solution :).

-- 
Eugene